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So i just write some brief of my opinion about this thread.
If you step out from all you agression based on some fairy tales and legends you will see, that poles at all aren’t so danger for you.
The most problem are this agencies who brings poor drivers from Poland here to drive for pennies - they arent good for them, as they pay them pennies, and they arent good for companies, as these drivers are bad, and they arent good for other drivers (no matter scottish or polish) who are already here, as they offering dumping prices.
It’s not true, that all polish drivers are worse - in my opinion to drive in Britain is even easier, as you have much better roads and very calm drivers and smaller traffic, as you are not a transit country. For me driving in Scotland is in most cases a pleasure. And is not true, that it’s easier to obtain driving license in Poland - we have the same European rules and classes (C, C+E etc) which you had introduced ten years ago from ages, and we have european standards as well.
It’s not true, that if you don’t working here you are ripping britain on taxes: if I came here and will not work, polish goverment will refund every costs or medical treatment to me on scottish goverment, exactly on the same rule, as when you are going abroad for holidays and you are taking your E111 with you. Of course if I am not insured in Poland, as I am not working there I will be in trouble when I’ll come back. And here no-one will register you to GP if yuo do not have yor NIN - you can only count on emergency treatment - perfectly as good as in Poland. My exapmle is perfect to show that: I had working here 23 months altogether and I am not able to get any benefits, altough I am in trouble caused by scottish company.
other facts: most of poles aren’t interested in putting wages down, as they are going on the same cart as you. I also prefer to earn 8 then 6 per hour.
benefits: they are some poles, who are coming here only to live on benefits, but as one of you told here: it’s only 2% of them compared to 30% of british people claiming benefits. So if your economy was good enaugh to put 30% of your society on benefits, this additional poeple who are paying taxes and everything here and only 2% of them claiming benefits must be nothing but profit for country’s budget.
About work: I had never problems to find a job here, even, when my english was much worse then now. So i somehow can’t see the problem: if some stranger can find job in less then 10 days everytime, when he is changing something in his career, why good, british, native driver can’t?
And last but not least: we joined EC, when we should be from ages, but due to historican things that wasn’t possible. Your goverment gave us right to work here (as many other countries) and many poles decided to catch this occasion and went here. As I was reading raports (in british papers) that made a profit for your country economy and big boost in many industries. So please, do not blame any particular polish (or czech) guy for that. It’s no reason to be rude to them. And you never know, maybe after 25 years your kids will be looking for work in Poland, as some brits already do?
And at the end: I am happy that I haven’t told nothing wrong enough to get a warning from Lucy, but if someone fell offended from one of my jokes, or simply mistakes in my english - sorry.